Refactoring aims at improving the internal structure of a software system without changing its
external behavior. Previous studies empirically assessed, on the one hand, the benefits of …

Refactoring is one of the means of managing technical debt and maintaining a healthy
software structure through enforcing best design practices, or coping with design defects …

Refactorings are-as defined by Fowler-behavior preserving source code transformations.
Their main purpose is to improve maintainability or comprehensibility, or also reduce the …

In software development, maintaining good design is essential. The process of refactoring
enables developers to improve this design during development without altering the …

The quality of a software system is mostly defined by its source code. Software evolves
continuously, it gets modified, enhanced, and new requirements always arise. If we do not …

Refactoring is one key issue to increase internal software quality during the whole software
lifecycle. Since identifying structures where refactorings should be applied often is explained …

Code review, where developers manually inspect one another's code changes, improves
software quality and transfers knowledge in a team. Unfortunately, tools that support code …

Software systems undergo modifications, improvements and enhancements to cope with
evolving requirements. This maintenance can cause their quality to decrease. Various …

It is very common in various fields that there is a gap between theoretical results and their
practical applications. This is true for code refactoring as well, which has a solid theoretical …

Although useful and widely available, refactoring tools are underused. One cause of this
underuse is that a developer sometimes fails to recognize that she is going to refactor before …